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Emeli Sande - Really kicked of the show well
Madness - Good
Pet Shop Boys - Average
One Direction - I don't like them but they are popular world wide so I can see why they did it
Ray Davis - Boring
Elbow - They were good, I felt it complemented the athletes coming in quite well
Kate Bush - Boring
George Michael - First song was ok but the second one just seemed to be the way they got him there. E.g. "You sing Freedom '90 and we'll let you promote your song." Overall the worst part of the night.
Kaiser Chiefs - A welcome relief after George Michael
Annie Lennox - Boring
Ed Sheeran - I would of really preferred if he did his own stuff, I thought he could of been utilised a lot better
Russel Brand - Why?
Fatboy Slim - Just weird and pointless to have a DJ performing live, almost as bad as miming
Jessie J - She was good, I think anyone would of been after all of that before her
Tinie Tempah - He was good also
Taio Cruz - Again good, at least it got people singing along
Spice Girls - Well at least they did songs people knew, which is more than you can say about some of the other artists
Oasis (Beady Eye) - Brilliant, wish they had done more
Eric Idle - One of the highlights of the show
Muse - Great, wish they had done more
Queen + Jessie J - Actually pretty good
Take That - Brilliant, especially after Gary Barlow has just lost a baby, again wish they had done more
The Who - Pretty average
What confused me the most was that on a VT before the closing ceremony started the guy organising it all said he wanted songs that people knew and could sing along too. Well I think he kind of failed there, a lot of songs people didn't know the words, a bit disappointed in it really, especially compared to the opening ceremony.
Agreed completely. Loved the closing ceremony and thought it was a great bookend to the opening. As I said to my girlfriend, I love how the Brits can take something a little more serious and turn it into a party.
You'd think that I'd have learned by now - after all, I've been on the internet almost 20 years! - but it's really discouraging to read people slagging off the closing ceremony. Why? Because of the incredible, unforgivable sin of having an artist perform that they didn't like. Sigh.
I thought that both ceremonies did a tremendous job of having something for everyone and showing a broad breadth of British pop culture. What's so difficult for people to understand that a) the ceremony wasn't made for them and only them and b) that not everyone has the same tastes as them? It reminds me of a former co-worker who was close to 50. We were discussing a Christmas special that was on the night before (she watched it with her kids) and she absolutely hated it. Why? Because in the 90 minutes of the show they featured ONE rap song! She kept asking "But WHY did they have to have rap?" No matter how much I tried to explain to her she just couldn't understand that not everyone hates rap - even though her kids loved it!
I was away and missed the opening ceremony, more's the pity. I also missed Jessica Ennis.
My best memory was the modesty of the athletes (apart from Mr Bolt of course), their willingness to give everything for a bauble. The Olympics is a unique event, a far greater testimony to sport than the World Cup can ever hope to be.
And by wrapping it up in just over two weeks they avoided the dreaded problem of outstaying it's welcome.
Wonderful.
And I'm afraid to report it undermines what the Olympics are about.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19242736
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/olympic-games/news/article.cfm?c_id=502&objectid=10826786
Looking at your avatar...you're not part of the ruling elite are you? The illuminati etc.
It just spells Zion - wish I hadn't looked at all that conspiracy stuff the London Olympics will never be the same for me again..
No, it doesn't. People are just being their natural brainless selves and trying to start fights where they have no place.
Only snippets of the Japanese competitors mostly and not the whole opening or closing ceremonies by any means - even so, I do not have a working tv set. But I did ask my friends about it, nd it was not a lot of coverage;, certainly not of most of the things I wanted. I think I could have gotten a cable package thru a company here, but I did not do the research in time to get it. My fault, just overworked.
How is this a shock to anyone? The only surprise is it took so long for anybody to notice. I mean honestly did you see the state of it? 'She' looks like either an obese Eric Kriegler or the lovechild of Fatima Whitbread and Eddie Yeats (RIP).
Would have thought when the other competitors caught her slipping the old man out the side of her shorts to have a slash in the sink it wouldve been a dead giveaway.
Amazing is that only a few have been caught, could the Games be cleaner than expected.
I think the bias goes more to longterm intensive training as with the Chinese supposedly happened.
And a few super athletes like Phelps and Bolt.
Watch this and remember the good time we have all experienced here in the UK. Time to fall in love again. And a fitting way to close this thread don't you think Mods?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19241028
Yeah, Dances With Wolves! Loved that little nod. Love the soundtrack!
=)) =))
http://www.worldalternativegames.co.uk/home/
:-\"
It will, they always have been.
Thanks. Well, I forgot to watch it as I did with the other opening ceremony.
Irish commentary at it's best:
http://www.viddler.com/v/abdf89d0